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**UPDATE (9-16-17): The Bluebirds are gone for the year. We are still streaming our 2 pigs with their 2 piglets. The chickens have moved away. We are planning on starting our bird feeder cam very soon. So stay tuned and enjoy the cam! The piglets were born on July 21, 2017. **

I have 2 cams, the bird feeder cam is a Logitech C930e Pro 1080p HD Webcam. It is mounted to a pole with protection from the weather.The 2nd cam is a Hawkeye HD Nature Camera. It is mounted to the inside ceiling of the Bluebird box. The Logitech Webcam is on a 22ft USB extension cable. The Hawkeye Camera is on a 100ft extension cable. The Hawkeye Camera has IR Nightvision so it can be placed in a Bluebird box. The Logitech Camera connects to the computer by USB. The Hawkeye Camera is plugged into a DVR which is plugged in to USB.

COMPUTER INFORMATION:

The computer that we use is a Dell Optiplex 390 with an i5 quad core processor.The computer runs on Windows 10. It is important to have an adequate internet access and a computer that is only used for streaming,we are using a bare bones desktop with only the software needed to run the stream.It is important that your streaming computer is not your personal computer because streaming takes a lot of demand from the computer. The computer is plugged into a Belkin Extender,which is a repeater for a Linksys Router. The computer streams our cams through Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). It makes our stream a whole lot clearer and smoother.